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Some 7,000 volunteers were evacuated in an unprecedented callback. Back home and jobless, they're in limbo — but there's a proposal to enlist them in the fight against COVID-19.

The Peace Corps volunteer thought she would miss her family and the traditional holiday fixings. But she found new reasons to be thankful during her time in the West African nation of Benin.

When Kul Gautam got a royal "no" for his passport request, he decided to do something special with his life. He tells of his journey from a tiny village to the upper ranks of the U.N. in a new memoir.

Researchers are split on the issue. We asked our audience to weigh in.

Stefani McCoy had it with school when she was a teenager. She turned her life around — and now she's helping Namibia's dropouts do the same.

The Department of Agriculture is curbing some school lunch standards championed by the former first lady, including stricter requirements on whole grains and sodium content.

The one-legged orphan in Liberia had figured out how to use a crutch as an improvised prosthetic leg. But he wanted the real deal.

And for one Peace Corps volunteer, it's a chance to join in the local culture — and to try to learn to ululate.

She wanted to promote exercise — and challenge the belief that women aren't as physically capable as men. So she jumped into a chilly, choppy lake.

Our Peace Corps correspondent, in northern Ghana, reports that what used to seem unusual is now not so unusual anymore.